Crossword puzzle for March 11, 2000 |
ACROSS 1. Largest known toad species 5. Saddle horse 9. City in Equitorial Guinea 13. A growth hormone 17. South Africa 18. Someone worthy of imitation 19. Egyptian god of life 20. Ancient Japanese religious center 21. Captain __, British pirate 22. Charge 23. A punctuation mark : 25. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings 27. Activates 29. Great deal 30. Devices 32. Prefix denoting "in a" 33. More (Spanish) 34. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent 36. Protects from weather 37. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something 38. Airborne, abbr. 39. Fed 42. Smell 44. Himalayan wild goats 46. Indonesian volcano 48. Glyceryl ester 50. Title of respect 51. __ Beam, drink 52. Sardines 53. A spineless globe-shaped cactus 55. Waters down 58. Tease 59. Parrots 61. Sixth letter of Hebrew alphabet 62. Afrikaans 64. A domed or vaulted recess 67. Moire 70. Emergencies 74. Acronym of an organization 76. Radioactivity unit 77. __ Angeles 79. Frogs, toads, tree toads 80. Oceanologist Jacques-Yves 82. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth usu. with poultry or shellfish 84. __ Erikson, psychologist 85. A liquid used for printing or writing or drawing 86. 007's creator 87. Own (Scottish) 88. Prints money 90. V 91. Hill (Celtic) 92. Explosive 93. Assembly possessing high legislative powers 95. Goddesses 98. The convergence of two parallel tracks in a narrow place 100. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of C and S America 103. A sum total of many miscellaneous things 105. A notice of someone's death 107. Descendant, heir 108. The compass point that is one point east of southeast 109. The extended location of something 110. Discriminative stimulus 111. Canute 112. Stepped on 113. Spin a floating log, as done by lumberjacks 114. A city in the Asian part of Soviet Russia 115. Phil __, former CIA head |
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1. Chests 2. The rate of moving (especially walking or running) 3. Gets 4. A way to confound 5. Satisfaction 6. Boat races 7. A small zodiacal constellation in the N hemisphere 8. A crude uncouth ill-bred unpleasant person 9. Clobbered 10. The former ruler of Afghanistan 11. Gobblers 12. Black tropical American cuckoo 13. Old World buffaloes 14. Young of various mammals e.g. whale or giraffe or esp. cattle 15. A pace of running 16. __ Christian Anderson, children's author 24. Crackpots 26. The residue that remains when something is burned 28. Type genus of the Apidae 31. Take in solid food 33. Licensed for Wall Street |
34. A state of high economic growth with rising profits and full employment 35. Baseless 37. In a way, succeeded 38. Helmet 39. King of Huns (Scandinavian) 40. __-A-O, movie technique 41. Freedom from difficulty 43. Vitamin D deficiency 45. Concealed 46. Bag 47. Carries air under pressure 49. No (Scottish) 51. Spear used in sports 54. The force of policemen and officers 56. Household god (Roman) 57. A baglike structure in a plant or animal 60. Wrap 63. Macaws 64. Anagram of aisc 65. A laborer who is obliged to do menial work 66. Algonquian tribe 68. Follows sigma 69. Pain unit 71. Accurate mapping |
72. A Great Lake 73. Japanese beverage from fermented rice 75. Producing no result or effect 78. Guards 81. ___ of corn 82. Earl of Chatham 83. A large vessel for making coffee or tea 87. A way to toughen 89. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings 91. In a way, coated 92. An edible tuber 93. Gland secretion 94. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers 95. Fright (obsolete) 96. Makes older 97. Southeast Nigeria people 98. Cassava with long tuberous edble roots and soft brittle stems 99. Crazy (Spanish) 101. Blood 102. Wager 104. Talk 106. Expression of disappointment |
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